My skills:

• Strong practical knowledge of PHP5 (inc. v5.3 and v5.4)
• Excellent OOP skills including design patterns understanding and applying
• Ability to build complex MySQL queries, optimize queries and tables for performance
• Knowledge and experience in Apache, Nginx, Memcache, Linux
• Solid experience in professional PHP and SQL (Oracle, MySQL) programming since 2005
• Knowledge in system design around scalability
• Practical usage of third party sites APIs (Facebook, Flickr, etc) and frameworks (Zend Framework, Yii, etc)
• Familiar with general Internet technologies including JavaScript, AJAX, HTML, REST, HTTP, CSS, etc
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent activities and have a flexible, positive attitude
• Excellent written and communication skills

My main goal is to do my job in a best way. To achieve that I follow next principles:

• Develop robust web applications and services with standard development tools
• Code with a consideration for performance, scalability, maintainability, security, etc
• Implement APIs and database schemas for new components
• Apply industry best-practice software standards and technology to complex business problems
• Verify, test & QA my work before each commit
• Follow coding standards (naming conventions, XHTML, PHP coding-standards, etc.) and best-practices like DRY, KISS and coding to E_STRICT validity